It could be less wordy, it isn’t perfect. I have definitely run into ones that require going through multiple layers of settings though, so this just seems a lot less bullshit than that.

Looking at the image again, default to not sharing while calling that ‘on’ and being slightly awkward is definitely not an accident and is probably designed to trick people paying no attention at all.

I mean, isn’t that the better way of doing it? One popup, exains everything, gives you the option to opt out in that popup instead of going through settings and shit.

I had Windows 10 do it once over however many years i was using it (was a fairly early adopter), and Windows 11 has never done it.

Anyone who can easily use Linux can just make Windows not do that kind of shit, and not auto-update, and block the connection from basically all Windows processes.

Hah, a line a burger king.

I mean, I would hope literally any phone on the market could survive rain.

Against all odds? This is a game that’s been going on for year, hacker vs Corp, and the hacker always wins. Same shit as anticheat in games, it’s a constant arms race but the hacker is nearly always a step ahead.

I actually bought premium just before the change, never actually got hit with the ad blocker blocker. Premium does appear to pay creators a respectable amount of the money so I consider it worth it. I also watch a huge amount of YouTube, and probably wouldnt have bought it if it wasn’t my primary entertainment platform.

If I had to sit through ads, premium or no, I’d be pretty done with YouTube.